Editing 1945 (section)

===December===
[[File:General George S Patton.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[George S. Patton]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Anton Dostler]], German general (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 4]]
** [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]], American biologist, geneticist, embryologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient (b. [[1866]])
** [[Richárd Weisz]], Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_j1DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Rich%C3%A1rd+Weisz%22+jewish&pg=PA270|title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame|first=Joseph|last=Siegman|date= 2020|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9781496222121}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] – [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Gabriellino D'Annunzio]], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Juana Bormann]], German [[Nazi concentration camp]] guard (executed) (b. [[1893]])
** [[Henri Dentz]], French general (b. [[1881]])
** [[Irma Grese]], German warden at [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] (executed) (b. [[1923]])
** [[Josef Kramer]], German commandant of [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] (executed) (b. [[1906]])
** [[Elisabeth Volkenrath]], German supervisor at [[Nazi concentration camp]]s (executed) (b. [[1919]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Forrester Harvey]], Irish actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 16]]
** [[Giovanni Agnelli]], Italian entrepreneur, founder of [[Fiat]] (b. [[1866]])
** [[Fumimaro Konoe]], Japanese general, politician and 23rd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Leonard F. Wing]], American general and politician (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://generals.dk/general/Wing/Leonard_Fish/USA.html Wing, Leonard Fish]</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[George S. Patton]], American general (injuries from automobile accident) (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{citation |first=Alan |last=Axelrod |author-link=Alan Axelrod |year=2006 |title=Patton: A Biography |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |location=[[London]] |isbn=978-1-4039-7139-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/patton00axel | pages=168–9}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Otto Neurath]], Austrian philosopher, political economist (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 26]] 
** [[Duy Tân]], [[Emperor of Vietnam]] (b. [[1900]])
** [[Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes]], British admiral (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Theodore Dreiser]], American novelist (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Theodore Dreiser Recalled|publisher=Clemson University Press|year=2017|isbn=9781942954446|page=311}}</ref>